Von Teese Clashes With PETA Over Foie Gras Fetish

Burlesque star Dita Von Teese has clashed with animal charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, after confessing her love for controversial French delicacy foie gras.

The exotic dancer has already been accused of hypocrisy for continuing to eat meat and wear fur, despite her ties to the animal rights organization.

And now she has confessed one of her favorite foods is the engorged liver of ducks and geese, telling The New York Times, “My guilty pleasure is eating foie gras in Paris. I feel guilty and horrible about it.”

Her comments have angered PETA. The organization’s media director Michael McGraw tells WENN, “We were aware that Dita is not a vegetarian before working with her, and she has brought much-needed attention to an important PETA campaign promoting spaying and neutering of companion animals.

“But foie gras entails some of the cruelest factory farming abuses, which is why most people choose not to eat it.

“Foie gras is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of ducks and geese who are cruelly force-fed by pipes that are shoved down their throats every day, pumping up to four pounds of grain and fat into their stomachs. We hope that Dita does the right thing and eliminates foie gras from her diet.”